[ad_1] The yolk does not fall cleanly. It has to be guided into the syrup. Too slow, and it thickens before it reaches the surface. Too fast, and it breaks. For a moment, the threads hold. Then they begin to disappear into themselves. This is how Thoufeek Zakriya remembers it. Not as a historian of … Read more
[ad_1] In the recently published book Speaking of History, a conversation between historian Romila Thapar and Namit Arora, the writer and social critic who also practises public history, the participants touch upon many interesting matters of cultural and social history that provoke further conversations. Since a large part of the book revolves around India’s cultural … Read more
[ad_1] In his essay “On History,” Bertrand Russell wrote, “Wherever, out of the facts, a simple deductive argument from indubitable premises can be elicited, history may yield useful precepts.” At first glance, it reads like a call for the historian’s cool logic. But it also hints at the fact that the raw material of history … Read more
[ad_1] Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of John the Carpenter, a husband so terrified that another “Noah’s flood” is coming to drown the world that he sleeps in a basket in the attic – freeing his wife to bed … Read more